storage-operator provides storage features such as automatic volume expansion, online cloud disk resizing, storage resource monitoring, and data prefill (creating high-performance volumes pre-filled with data from an OSS bucket) to improve the O&M efficiency of Alibaba Cloud storage resources in ACK clusters. This topic describes how to use the storage-operator component and lists its changelog.
Component introduction
By default, storage-operator is deployed in the cluster as a Deployment with the following features enabled.
Volume auto scaling: Automatically scales disk and NAS volumes.
To disable this feature, add the Feature Gate
Expander=false.Disk configuration modification: Modifies disk configurations.
To disable this feature, add the Feature Gate
DiskVolumeUpgradeControl=false.Stateful application migration: Migrates stateful applications across zones.
To disable this feature, add the Feature Gate
ApplicationMigrationAcrossAZ=false.
Change Record
January 2026
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact |
v1.35.1 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.35.1-4b60408 |
| 2026-01-19 | Your services will not be affected by this upgrade. |
October 2025
Version | Image address | Change Details | Modification Time | Impact |
v1.33.2 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.33.2-f32da36 |
| 2025-10-17 | No impact on workloads. |
August 2025
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact |
v1.33.1 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.33.1-cb82bad |
| 2025-08-20 | No impact on workloads. |
v1.32.10 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.10-aa189c8 | Optimized memory usage of the storage-auto-expander component. | 2025-08-08 | No impact on workloads. |
May 2025
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact |
v1.32.9 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.9 | Improved security for the storage-cnfs and storage-controller components using security-hardened mode to access metadata. | 2025-05-14 | No impact on workloads. |
March 2025
Version | Image address | Changes | Last Modified | Impact |
v1.32.5 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.5 | Fixed an issue in the storage-cnfs component. | 2025-03-31 | No impact on workloads. |
v1.32.4 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.4 |
| 2025-03-12 | No impact on workloads. |
September 2024
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact of the change |
v1.31.1 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.31.1 |
| 2024-09-26 | No impact on workloads. |
July 2024
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact of the change |
v1.30.2 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.30.2 | Optimized component logs. | 2024-07-12 | Your services will not be affected by this upgrade. |
May 2024
Version | Image address | Change details | Modification Time | Change impact |
v1.30.1 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.30.1 | Updated dependencies and disabled older TLS versions to improve system security. | 2024-05-31 | No impact on workloads. |
January 2024
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Change impact |
v1.28.2-be0cf84-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.28.2-be0cf84-aliyun | Fixed an issue in the storage-controller component. | 2024-01-17 | No impact on workloads. |
December 2023
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact |
v1.28.1-4e62141-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.28.1-4e62141-aliyun |
| 2023-12-25 | No impact on workloads. |
October 2023
Version number | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact of changes |
v1.26.2-1de13b6-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.26.2-1de13b6-aliyun |
| 2023-10-25 | No impact on workloads. |
July 2023
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact |
v1.26.1-50a1499-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.26.1-50a1499-aliyun | Fixed several monitoring and snapshot issues. | 2023-07-02 | No impact on workloads. |
February 2023
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact of the change |
v1.24.102-b1cfa3d-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.24.102-b1cfa3d-aliyun | Added the storage-controller component to support changing cloud disk types. | 2023-02-06 | No impact on workloads. |
November 2022
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact |
v1.24.97-3eb7acc-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.24.97-3eb7acc-aliyun |
| 2022-11-02 | No impact on workloads. |
September 2022
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact |
v1.24.95-e2d0756-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.24.95-e2d0756-aliyun | Updated storage-cnfs-controller to v1.24.31-262bf31-aliyun. | 2022-09-27 | No impact on workloads. |
August 2022
Version | Image address | Modified content | Modification Time | Impact of the change |
v1.22.91-c4d5ab4-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/csi-plugin:v1.22.91-c4d5ab4-aliyun | Added storage metric collection. | 2022-08-25 | No impact on workloads. |
July 2022
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact |
v1.22.86-041b094-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/csi-plugin:v1.22.86-041b094-aliyun |
| 2022-07-13 | No impact on workloads. |
May 2022
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact of the change |
v1.22.8-aa22537-aliyun | registry.cn-{{region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.22.8-aa22537-aliyun | Modified cloud disk snapshot YAML files. | 2022-05-13 | No impact on workloads. |
April 2022
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impacts |
v1.22.0.75-5bc07f7-aliyun | registry.cn-{{region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.22.0.75-5bc07f7-aliyun | Added support for advanced cloud disk snapshot features. | 2022-04-14 | No impact on workloads. |
March 2022
Version | Image address | Changes | Modified Time | Impact |
v1.18.8.68-9078250-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.68-9078250-aliyun | Patched security vulnerabilities in the CentOS 7 base image. | 2022-03-16 | No impact on workloads. |
December 2021
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact |
v1.18.8.67-c1aef60-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.67-c1aef60-aliyun | Fixed slow quota activation and automatic expansion failures for NAS file systems. | 2021-12-22 | No impact on workloads. |
September 2021
Version | Image address | Change details | Modification Time | Impact of changes |
v1.18.8.60-a5ba617-aliyun | registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.60-a5ba617-aliyun |
| 2021-09-24 | No impact on workloads. |
August 2021
Version | Image address | Changes | Last Modified | Impact |
v1.18.8.55-e398ce5-aliyun | registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.55-e398ce5-aliyun |
| 2021-08-16 | No impact on workloads. |
June 2021
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact |
v1.18.8.37-c63030b-aliyun | registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.37-c63030b-aliyun |
| 2021-06-25 | No impact on workloads. |
March 2021
Version | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact of changes |
v1.18.8.28-18cca7b-aliyun | registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.28-18cca7b-aliyun | New features:
| 2021-03-25 | No impact on workloads. |